Whoever signed off on your wait-list letter did their job correctly. You just lied to the admissions committee and told them that the person fucked up their job horribly. Reminds me of when I worked at a movie theater, and there were signs saying "If the cashier doesn't ask you if you want a combo, you get a free ticket!" Huge asshats would go to management all the time and finger random people just to get the ticket. Some of my buddies got fired that way.